John Mayer - 3x5 [2001]
found another one to cry to every time
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really enjoying this song about wanting a wealthy older man to pay your rent that i clipped out of a random NTS set that came on while i was at work because i wasn’t able to find it anywhere else online:
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Akiko Yano - おてちょ。(Drop me a Line)
lyrics from what I can make out
Life was fun in Georgia
Everybody was so kind
Greens were deep and cheap
We had strawberries all the time
How old Andre laughed
As he proudly showed me his war scars
Still he couldn’t stop the tears that
fell in his vodka glass
Drop me a line
Sometime
Five years back I was down and out
Nearly at my wits’ end
Justen took me out
To see pictures in the drizzling rain
Moholy-nagy’s never-setting sun
In black and white
Wonder if my German’s gotten good enough to write
And say:
Drop me a line
Sometime
There’s no end to our dreams
Not in miles
Not in years
My cousin built a yellow bicycle
Out of old spare parts
Took him two whole months
And it certainly wasn’t any work of art
He went off to MIT
A scientific wonderboy
Now he’s married to an older woman
Living in Illinois
Drop me a line
Sometime
Ariani and I spent Tuesday
Down at the library
Alexander the Great at Gaugamela
Ancient history
Daniel’s prophecies all came true
But where do we go from here?
Drunks and workaholics
All her men bring her nothing but tears
But she doesn’t care
Wonder if she shares me a line
Ooh-ooh
Sometime
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akiko, the best
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She’s certainly something else. I dunno who else would think to mix jazz fusion with industrial metal and make the album cover a photo of yourself in a low-key pastel cardigan. Something we should all aspire to…
Edit: also if anyone happens to know of a better quality version of this performance of rose garden floating around anywhere, I would be very, very grateful🙏
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been succumbing to the allure of this era of campus quad twee from the oughts. and wondering how far off in the nostalgia cycle we are from guys dedicating a room in the house to wolf parade, stacking milk crates on each other and uh [shuffles notes for videogame reference] um. suikoden 3? help me out here
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When pop culture comes around to nostalgia for shit that happened after I was a full ass adult that’s it, I’m done
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it’s no help but i remember liking math and physics club from that era
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thanks, i haven’t heard this and yes i think you are understanding correctly
in the meantime i had ended up putting a list together ~
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looking at this was like someone punched me in the gut. even tho i by no means heard every one of those albums and i def still was a bigger Radiohead and Flaming Lips fan than all of those bands, those were my teenage years. was particularly obsessive about Grandaddy of the things on that list.
also in this vein of 00’s twee indie things i listened to in high school, i’m still sort of obsessive about Rogue Wave’s first album for some reason. it wasn’t huge, and they transitioned from “quirky indie hopeful” to “mall rock you hear on The OC” pretty quickly but there is something quaint and charming about that first album
edit: oh also maybe they’re more like psych-tinged than most twee indie i guess but The Impossible Shapes are very much worth looking into
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the intent definitely was to sting a little, hehehe, may i quote this on the recordclub list description?
yea truthfully calling it ‘campus twee’ before is pretty romanticized; i was listening in the late-10’s and at the time i was absolutely chasing some platonic form of ‘college’ nobody around me quite got. it still feels apt to me today though ahha. the flaming lips were considered but part of a few i considered too into their own thing, big or not cutesy enough to really match, arcade fire, fleet foxes et al. by chance you may be amused by this heavily grandaddy-referrential indie sci-fi film
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tbh i found this kind of “college indie” more aspirational than a reality most of the time. i really idealized it when i was in high school but by the time i felt like i was having a real “college” experience in college it was over and i was thrown out into the cruel world having just started transitioning. i def had this feeling that gen x had the real indie music in the 90’s and 00’s twee was just like an imitation. i did have shows at the college radio station tho but i ended up talking to people about new music on online forums far more than anything else. i think there was def some shame and self consciousness about talking to other people about your music taste in general. i def had a lot of self consciousness about being judged uncool because i was just some very uncool rural ohio kid. really the biggest things i was introduced to were all through online forums and largely recommended by older people as a result.
but it was true that a lot of college students were into the Pitchfork indie at the time in general. some of those bands played shows at our school, which was cool to see. Of Montreal and Animal Collective and their ilk. also i was a townie a couple years after i graduated and i did notice it starting to shift from everyone talking about bands like Clap Your Hands Say Yeah for a month or so to like Nicki Minaj in the early 2010’s. and the rest is history
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Spokane, Wa 2011. Police are calling the suspect ‘the Stomp Clap Killer’ - please inform local authorities if you have any information that could lead to an arrest
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the stomp clap stuff was like the last rung of evolution of indie from arsty folk hipsters to fully mainstream middlebrow kitsch soundtracking car commercials. i think when we saw Owl City have that big song we knew that sort of stuff was coming down the pipeline sooner or later. a sad time.
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that’s ok, i didn’t want my walls to stand up anyway
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the sound of urchin - scary skull eyes
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